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#what a weird choice to just... change where the buildings are

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im so sick. infected with. where i live. let me live without. this. empty bliss, selfishness.. im so sick

#anthem for angsty christian 13 year old girls

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Anytime something is objectively damaging for women but makes ppl money they just get academics to write some opaque gibberish about how it's actually empowering and feminist via Long Division and then force-feed that POV to undergraduates-whose job it is to vomit it to all their friends. So in the end, what makes corporations, insurance companies, sex industry stakeholders etc money is somehow always in alignment with the latest 19th wave of feminism

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Omg, I love the protector of the small books! My friends and I were way into Alanna and thought she was the best, but having reread most of the tortall books in the last couple years, I found the writing a lot weaker and I think it got better after that series. Tbh Kel is the best person and such a role model for young girls and I just love how she chooses to navigate the world.

That sounds like an interesting novella! I honestly have never read Stephen King bc I don't want to have to deal with his misogyny, but that sounds like a fun concept to explore

For the book ask: 24/25 (not sure how you delineate between them so you can pick if you want) and 26 :)

I had to look up the difference between YA and Middle Grade as well lol. (Middle grade is ages 8-12, YA is 13-18)

24-25) Favorite Young Adult and Middle Grade books? For YA, I will always stan Katniss Everdeen. I think the Hunger Games books are genuinely good. As for middle grade, I nominate The Protector of the Small Quartet by Tamora Pierce as tribute. Kel's adventures in knighthood hold up! She's also my role model. I was way more into Daine and Alanna as a kid, but Kel...she resonates with my adult self lol.

26) Favorite novella(s)? A Good Marriage by Stephen King. A middle-aged housewife, content with her life, discovers her husband is a serial killer. He promises he won't do it again, and she has to choose between turning him in and risking jail herself, not to mention upending her children's lives, or keeping quiet. Or the secret third option: MURDER

(Ask me about books!)

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hozier (2014) being hozier’s debut album is fucking nuts like… take me to church?? from eden?? work song?? like real people do?? it will come back?? foreigner’s god?? cherry wine?? SEDATED?? what the fuck??

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creamy vegan mushroom stroganoff

#recipe

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something that still makes me sick to my stomach is that nobody really needed any evidence for what they were accusing Amber Heard of, nobody bothered to verify anything, half of them didn't even know what the trial was about; they were just happy to unleash all the hatred they have against women once it was socially acceptable to do so. men wanted to torture a pretty female celebrity in a “kill the cheerleader” manner, prove that women are the actual abusers and liars and men are the poor victims who are never believed - conveniently after a wave of women no longer staying silent about the abuse and sexual assault they endured - and they succeeded, partially thanks to all the handmaidens who were happy to throw a woman they knew nothing about under the bus to prove that they are the good kind of feminist who fights for women and men alike and just cares so much about male victims. nobody cited anything else than the few tiktok viral clips that could have been easily disproven like Depp accusing Heard of cutting his finger off, or a few body language expert who were Just Some Guy concerned about their views and not the truth and who conveniently were able to make it seem like Amber smiling or crying or sitting and staring and doing nothing or moving her head by one degree to the side or looking at the jury when she's addressing them is a proof of her being the abuser. when asked what about Amber's testimony doesn't make sense, one of my friends just stared blankly for a good while and only came up with an answer like “oh, like when she said that her dog stepped on a bee”. yeah, we all saw that on a 20-second youtube short too. you'd think that before going on a crusade of death wishes towards someone and comparing her to serial killers people would learn anything about this woman at all, but they just knew NOTHING and it didn't stop them. hope the temporary validation you got from moids was worth all the women you scared into silence, hope it was worth all the rape victims you terrified with your “lol what is she complaining about that just sounds like a dream” tiktoks with Amber's testimony about Depp raping her used as an audio, hope it was worth what happened to Evan Rachel Wood and hundreds of other women, hope it will be worth it when you will just get mocked and called an Amber if you ever decide to stand up for yourself against your abuser.

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Nearly every terrible thing about our sexual politics comes down to the fact that, in patriarchy, patriarchs understand themselves to be inessential. Conservatives defend “family” and fatherhood as if they're under violent attack. That's because, as long as women are self-determined and possessed of options, they are. The twenty-first-century war to maintain patriarchy includes not just legislative attacks on the right to abortion, but on birth control, and sex education, which allows people to successfully avoid pregnancy in the first place. The fear here, despite generations of rhetoric to the contrary, is not about “killing babies”; men have always reserved the right to kill or at least abandon babies that displease them, usually after they leave the womb. The fear is that women will be the ones making the decisions; it is not death, but life, that we want to keep out of women's hands.

-Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

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What books were you and 15 other ppl reading….

#he wasn't a pureblood????? his mother was literally muggleborn???? like that was the point #that he had a pureblood parent and a muggleborn parent so he could empathize with both #not to mention ron and Hermione who also represented these two types of wizards #and I understood this when i was like 12 bc it's not hard and it's a book for children

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many years ago me and best friend were traipsing around the local history museum . the museum had a long overlooked mummy room on the third floor

the sarcophagus on display was open, the elaborate lid hanging a foot above the casket to barely reveal the mummy inside, like;

and bestfriend said, Sometimes they wrote messages under the lid for the Dead to read ,

and she laid down on the dirty museum carpet next to the glass case , patting the ground next to her for me to follow suit . sure enough, the underside of the casket lid was covered in inked characters , a brochure of directions to the afterlife in case they woke up all organless and confused

someone else wandered in to the little mummy room and asked if we were ok. she said, Come check this out. so he laid down on the other side.

i crossed my arms over my chest , and so did they . four bodies , seeing a message intended for one; we love you, we miss you, we hope you find your way

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That viral video from last month of a giraffe pushing a tortoise was interesting to me because I saw it on French & Spanish corners of the internet and everyone was referring to the animals in the video as 'she' since giraffe & tortoise are feminine words, meanwhile on the English-speaking internet I saw a minority of people referring to them as 'it' or 'they', an overwhelming majority using masculine words, and almost no one use 'she'

Similarly romance language speakers humanised these animals using women's names while English speakers used men's names:

And of course it would have been different had the giraffe been an elephant (masculine word) but yeah I find it interesting that when it comes to personifying animals and things, speakers of gendered languages will go 50% masculine 50% feminine due to grammatical gender, while speakers of a non-gendered language with a neutral pronoun will go like 80% masculine 18% neutral 2% feminine.

It must feel weird to learn a gendered language and have to accept that a door is 'she', but it also feels weird to learn a non-gendered language like English and then scroll down hundreds of comments under an animal video and all the animals are 'he'. I'm reminded of a cartoon I saw on tumblr once with a speaking lightbulb, and all the comments referred to it as 'he' and a 'guy' (in french & spanish, people would call it she.) I wonder how it affects the way you frame the world in your mind? you ask a French kid to personify a spoon or a mouse or a raindrop, it's going to be a female character by default. I feel like that's something English speakers rarely consider—that compared to languages that are 'visibly', officially gendered in a 50/50 way, English is less neutral, and more masculine-gendered. When anglophones learn about grammatical gender they tend to react like "why is a chair a 'she' that's absurd?", but when the context calls for it they'll call a lightbulb 'he' without thinking about it

#interesting #I've always been somewhat critical of gendered languages bc male is the default for several things #like mixed sex groups of people are referred to as masculine #but there is no doubt that English has an unconscious male bias #i think part of it is that we are so reliant on visual gender signifiers #and the way those signifiers work is that male is the default and female has to be indicated through some addition/performance #like a bow or eyelashes or pink somewhere #and animals never have those things without human involvement so animals are mostly read as male #i didn't realize that gendered languages would assume/anthropomorphize gender based on the gender of the noun #that is pretty interesting and different from english

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i cannot explain how the phrase "los abusadores son hijos sanos del patriarcado" (abusers/rapists are the healthy sons of the patriarchy) changed my life. when you're faced with statistics, when you realize women are at higher risk around men they know and trust, it really changes everything.

and when you realize rapists aren't just some creepy-looking guys walking at night, that phrase helps you understand a rapist can be a man close to you, a man you know, a man you trust, a man you think would never do that, any seemingly well-adjusted man.

and given how hard latinamerican feminists are fighting to bring justice for women murdered by intimate partners like boyfriends and husbands and fight for abortion rights for little girls abused by male family members, we can't dismiss rape as a crime only committed by terrible men who can't adapt to society or say "real men don't do that".

it could be any man. that's the point.

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This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!

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talking to people while holding a beverage is awesome because you don't have to know what to do with your hands and when you don't know what to do with your face you can just take a sip

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